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During a webcast today, Hyundai CEO John Krafcik announced that the automaker would roll out redesigned versions of the Elantra compact sedan, Accent subcompact and Santa Fe midsize crossover by 2011. He also said the company would release an all-new........

Read a full text of the president's Nobel Lecture below the fold. See the president's speech here and read the full report from Oslo, updated at the conclusion at 8:20 am EST. (Also see, below the fold, the toast that......

I caught up on Jersey Shore after hearing so much about it. It really is performance art, right? This show -- about a group of self-proclaimed "Guidos" and "Guidettes" living on the Jersey Shore for the last month of summer......

Florida Marlins owner and art dealer Jeffrey Loria has promised his team???s new ballpark will be a work of art and unlike any other baseball stadium. That???s why he???s focused on creating a modernist structure of sleek white stucco, silver......

by Mark Silva With the Senate's 60-40 vote early this morning to move its health-care legislation to expected passage this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate had taken a "historic step'' toward delivering on the promise of......

Is everyone else as excited as I am to see how this Survivor: Samoa finale plays out? I cannot wait!Russell wakes up early and finds the treemail describing their challenge, which requires balance, speed and patience. Russell's mad that his......

A 40-foot-wide sinkhole opened up in the least opportune location for Corvette fans early Wednesday morning. According to reports, the giant sinkhole opened underneath the National Corvette Museum in Bowling Green, Ky., swallowing eight noteworthy Vettes....

I hope everyone's Christmas is going well so far. I'm going to try to get a walk in before the freezing rain starts (that sounds like fun, doesn't it?) and make a cold lemon souffle to take to Christmas dinner.......

Bourbon Girl (welcome back) posted this comment just now under an old entry, and it might be a good time to explain what's going on with the captchas. I'm sure others are wondering.Catching up after long absence, the comments to......

by Mark Silva In a town where the last vice president maintained that he didn't have to inform the National Archives about the volume of material that his office was classifying as secret -- because Vice President Dick Cheney asserted......

by Mark Silva That arc of history which President Barack Obama likes to cite is not limited to rhetoric: A bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. sits in the modestly remodeled Oval Office of the 44th president -......